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- From: lars@mistral.co.uk (Lars Janssen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Proxxy
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 23:03:38 GMT
- Organization: Mistral Internet (Brighton)
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- Uwe Sigurd Valentin Kubosch (uwek@hnoss.ifi.uio.no) wrote:
-
- [explanation about proxies cut]
-
- > Is this a way to let machines get access to the Internet even if
- > only one machine on the LAN has actual Internet access?
-
- It can be, yes... I have direct Internet access on my Amiga, but
- sometimes I use a proxy at the Imperial College, London because they
- have a better link to some places.
-
- But I could also run a proxy server on my Amiga presumably - so if I
- had a second machine connected to my Amiga but not the Internet, it
- could access the WWW.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Lars.
-
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